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Sano- 01-18-2008
A brief survey...
Which religion, out of those on the chart, do you most closely identify with? Feel free to include a short post as to why...

eldin raigmore- 01-18-2008
Re: A brief survey...
No need to quote with the img url Edlin. I suppose "Christian", in the "identify with" sense. My parents were Christians and raised us all as Christians; I was a Christian for 27 years. One of my ex-wives came from a similar family and was an ex-Christian; the other also came from a similar family and is still a Christian and is raising our daughter that way. My brother is still a Christian. Neither of my sisters is (well, my late older sister wasn't, my younger sister isn't), and their children mostly aren't AFAIK; I don't know how my brother's wife and children feel. As for which I believe, I don't know; "atheist" might be closer. Or "agnostic". Or "emotionally agnostic-leaning-towards-Deist, intellecutally agnostic-leaning-toward atheist". Or, heck, put me in as "neo-religious". Feel free to include a short post as to why...That will take some thinking, at least for me.

Konman- 01-21-2008

I'm Catholic, though I don't politically share all of the same viewpoints as the church. I was born and raised Catholic and I tend to agree with most of what it teaches.

chicken-pot Wy- 01-22-2008

I am a Christian, specifically an Evangelical. I was raised by Christian parents, though my mother was more active than my father. I made a personal decision to accept Christ when I was very young, seven years old. I continued to attend church, but as I grew there was very little that could be seen in my life that would set me apart from the non-Christian kids. When I started to attend university, I lived with several guys I had grown up with and was not very concerned about being a Christian. I just knew that I was one. Sometimes I would pray. After two years of college, I felt like I was going in the wrong direction so I changed schools. Almost immediately I found that there were several active Christian organizations on my new campus. I attended different meetings and settled on two that I liked best. I was amazed to find that there were kids there my age who were as spiritually mature, or more so, than many of the adults I had known growing up in Church in my little home town. I took a new look at Christianity, read a few books, talked with some people my age, and decided to rededicate my life to Christ. I started to study the bible and study about the bible and about historical Christianity, and I began to have what we call a personal relationship with God. Now I'm in my 40s with a wife and kids. I can look back in my life and see several times when God has provided for me in unusual ways, and I know that he has sustained my wife and I through some very difficult situations. Our life together has been incredibly challenging at times and continues to be something we have to work on together. We've reached out for help to those around us and we've learned a lot about God and about ourselves along the way. It's enlightening to know that God doesn't tell us we'll always be happy here on earth, but he does promise to get us through it relatively unscathed and teaches us how to let him handle the big stuff. As I raise my children, I take time to make sure they know about God and understand his love for them. I hope they can avoid some of the mistakes I've made over the years, and hope that they will grow up to be closer to God than I've been at times. But no matter the choices they make, they'll always know that God loves them no matter what, and so will I.

Steve the Pirate- 01-22-2008

Atheist. I've thought about this, and come to the conclusion that there are no deities or supernatural entities.

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